H.R.1531: To amend title 28, United States Code, relating to jurisdictional immunities of the Federal Republic of Germany, to grant jurisdiction to the courts of the United States in certain cases involving acts of genocide occuring against certain individuals during World War II in the predecessor states of the Federal Republic of Germany, or in any territories or areas occupied, annexed, or otherwise controlled by those states.

Bill Cosponsors

85 (64 Democrats, 22 Republicans)

• Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
• Dan Miller (R-Fla.)
• Carrie P. Meek (D-Fla.)
• Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.)
• H. James Saxton (R-N.J.)
• Martin Frost (D-Texas)
• Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
• James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.)
• William O. Lipinski (D-Ill.)
• Michael R. McNulty (D-N.Y.)
• Tim Holden (D-Pa.)
• Sidney R. Yates (D-Ill.)
• Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
• Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)
• Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
• Gene Green (D-Texas)
• James H. Maloney (D-Conn.)
• Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
• Steven R. Rothman (D-N.J.)
• J.C. Watts (R-Okla.)
• Lane A. Evans (D-Ill.)
• Jon D. Fox (R-Pa.)
• Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)
• Phil English (R-Pa.)
• Peter T. King (R-N.Y.)
• Donald M. Payne (D-N.J.)
• Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
• Corrine Brown (D-Fla.)
• Sue W. Kelly (R-N.Y.)
• Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
• Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)
• Elizabeth Furse (D-Ore.)
• Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.)
• Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
• Esteban Edward Torres (D-Calif.)
• Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.)
• Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)
• Glenn Poshard (D-Ill.)
• Peter Deutsch (D-Fla.)
• Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.)
• James T. Walsh (R-N.Y.)
• Mark Adam Foley (R-Fla.)
• Stephen Horn (R-Calif.)
• Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.)
• Major R. Owens (D-N.Y.)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
• Robert A. Weygand (D-R.I.)
• Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)
• Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
• Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)
• Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.)
• Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.)
• Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.)
• John Ensign (R-Nev.)
• Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)
• Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
• Joel Hefley (R-Colo.)
• Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
• Michael P. Forbes (D-N.Y.)
• Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
• John F. Tierney (D-Mass.)
• Thomas J. Manton (D-N.Y.)
• Constance A. Morella (R-Md.)
• Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.)
• Ken Calvert (R-Calif.)
• Nicholas V. Lampson (D-Texas)
• Patsy T. Mink (D-Hawaii)
• Julian C. Dixon (D-Calif.)
• Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas)
• Sam Farr (D-Calif.)
• Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.)
• Ken Bentsen (D-Texas)
• David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.)
• Christopher H. Shays (R-Conn.)
• Bob Franks (R-N.J.)
• Brian P. Bilbray (R-Calif.)
• Carlos Romero-Barcelo (D-Puerto Rico)
• Robert T. Matsui (D-Calif.)
• Max A. Sandlin (D-Texas)
• Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.)
• Loretta Sánchez (D-Calif.)
• Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
• George Miller (D-Calif.)
• Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.)
• Robert A. Underwood (D-Guam)

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